Abstract
MSS. 101. 1886-1982. 104.33 cubic feet and 53 volumes. Correspondence, annual reports, minutes, financial records, maps, oral history interviews, publications and other records documenting the history of the Delta and Pine Land Company. While headquartered in Scott, Mississippi, the company was owned by a British firm throughout most of its history, and at various times it had offices in Arizona, California, and Texas. Advertised during one period as the world's largest cotton plantation, Delta and Pine Land Company grew a variety of crops and became famous for its research and development of cotton varieties. Among the major subjects in the collection are agriculture, cotton seed research, the tenant farming system, the National Cotton Council, the New Deal, the Mississippi River flood of 1927, the Mississippi Delta, and various agricultural organizations. Correspondence, annual reports, minutes, financial records, maps, oral history interviews, and other records documenting the history of the Delta and Pine Land Company. Includes records about African-American tenant farmers.
Publication Date
9-30-2019
College
University Libraries
Keywords
manuscripts, finding aids, Special Collections, African-American History, Agriculture and Rural Life, Plantations, Politics, World War II
Recommended Citation
Mississippi State University Libraries, "Delta and Pine Land Company records" (2019). Special Collections Finding Aids. 259.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/spcoll-findingaids/259